Acquires Quotes

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Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished! — Pope Francis
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send… — Pio of Pietrelcina
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly… — Brian D. McLaren
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. — Horace
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. — Jean Racine
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,… — Erasmus Darwin
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears… — Matthew Arnold
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver… — E. M. Forster
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him… — Bob Marley
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. — Laurence J. Peter
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. — Steven Pinker
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied… — Edward de Bono
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility… — Chuck Palahniuk
Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch,… — Yukio Mishima
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course,… — Ludwig von Mises
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires… — Soren Kierkegaard

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